The family of Daunte Wright has reached a $3.25 million settlement with the City of Brooklyn Center following his death by a police officer in April last year.
The city has also agreed to facilitate “changes to its policies and police officer training related to making traffic stops for equipment violations that do not interfere with the safety of the driver, passenger or members of the community,” according to a statement from lawyers representing Wright’s family released Tuesday night.
Attorneys said the $3.25 million settlement is thought to be the third-largest civil rights wrongful death settlement of its kind in Minnesota and the largest such settlement for a city in Minnesota outside Minneapolis….